Will I be able to visit my neighbors?

I know that housing will be instanced, and that you will be able to open it up for certain people, or everyone to visit, but have the dev's mentioned grouping houses together into a kind of neighborhood where I will get to socialize with those who live near me?

I know that housing will be instanced, and that you will be able to open it up for certain people, or everyone to visit, but have the dev's mentioned grouping houses together into a kind of neighborhood where I will get to socialize with those who live near me?

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I think the thing you're talking about Zypher, where houses are organized into a small community, is something that JGaff mentioned in passing. From what I remember of the interview it didn't sound like he was keen on it due to his past experience implementing something like that for a previous game he worked on. He essentially pointed out that the socializing you'd get from making gated communities (seewhatididthere?) would be minimal. You have 30 people in a given community, some toons aren't played often, others start toons and leave the game, etc. so there ends up being a pretty good chance that there would be communities with 0 active toons more often that those with a even a handful of active people.

EDIT: Here's the Video of the interview. Start at around 30:00 and you'll hear them transition to talk about housing.